NHS Wheelchair Services

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Dear NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group,

Please may I request the following information with regard to NHS Wheelchair Services, to be provided under the Freedom of Information Act.
1. Who provides your current Wheelchair Service
a. Is your provider an NHS organisation or a contracted-out, non-NHS organisation?
b. What is the name of your current provider?
c. What is the name of the Wheelchair Service Manager?

2. How your wheelchair services are provided
a. Do you combine your Wheelchair Service with any other service, such as Prosthetics or Community Equipment? If so, please provide a list of the other services.
b. Is your Wheelchair Service exclusive to your CCG?
c. If you service is combined with another please provide a list of the CCGs that share this Wheelchair Service and confirm who is the lead CCG?
d. Is the Repair and Maintenance element of the service “integrated” or contracted out to a 3rd party Approved Repairer?
e. If you have an externally provided Approved Repairer, what is the name of your current provider?

3. About your wheelchair service
a. What is the size of the population covered by your Wheelchair Service?
b. How many registered service users are served by the Wheelchair Service?

4. About the Integrated (Combined service and Repair & Maintenance) contract with your provider
a. What is the contract spend in the last financial year for the Integrated Wheelchair Service?
b. Please state the dates of your last financial year.
c. When was the Integrated Wheelchair Service last tendered?
d. When does the current contract expire please provide details of any potential contract extension?
e. Please provide the date this Wheelchair Service will be next tendered

5. About the Repair and Maintenance (R&M) sub-contract with your wheelchair provider (where appropriate)
a. What is the contract spend in the last financial year for the R&M Wheelchair Service?
b. Please state the dates of your last financial year.
c. When was the R&M Wheelchair Service last tendered?
d. When does the current R&M sub-contract expire please provide details of any potential contract extension
e. Please provide the date that R&M Wheelchair Service sub-contract will be next tendered

Thank you

Yours faithfully,

Mr N Douglas

FOI Calderdale, NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group

Dear Mr Douglas

FOI Ref: 1718171

Thank you for your application for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 received on 15 November 2017.

We are looking into your request and will respond to you within the 20 working day deadline. The response due date for your request is 13 December 2017.

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If you require any further assistance with handling this request, then please do not hesitate to contact us quoting the FOI Ref shown above by email: [NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group request email]

Kind regards

Andrew O’Connor

Andrew O’Connor
Corporate Governance Officer
NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group 
5th Floor, F Mill, Dean Clough, Halifax HX3 5AX

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Dear Mr Douglas

Please find attached NHS Calderdale CCGs response to your Freedom of Information request.

Kind regards

Andrew O’Connor

Andrew O’Connor
Corporate Governance Officer
NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group 
5th Floor, F Mill, Dean Clough, Halifax HX3 5AX

5 Email: Andrew.O’[email address]
ATel:      01422 307438
 Fax:     01422 281301


                                                                
NHS CALDERDALE CCG DISCLAIMER
This is an email from Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient any reading, printing, storage, disclosure, copying or any other action taken in respect of the e-mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by using the reply function and then delete what you have received. Calderdale CCG accepts no responsibility for any changes made to this message after the original author has sent it. The views or opinions contained herein do not necessarily represent the views of Calderdale CCG. This e-mail or any of its attachments may contain data that falls within the scope of the Data Protection Acts and the Freedom of Information Act. You must ensure that any handling or processing of such data by you is fully compliant with the terms and provisions of the Data Protection Act 1984 and 1998 and Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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